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Monday, December 3, 2012

Paperman: Short Film Review

La Luna currently
held the #1 spot in my short-film favorites heart, that was until I sat in my
theater seat and saw Paperman on
screen. For you short-film buffs, this one does not disappoint! Directed by
John Kahrs, the short is actually created and rendered in CG, but it is created
to look like original 2D-drawn animation. Confusing, huh? A CG animated short
made to look 2D! The film has no dialogue and is also completely black and
white besides one color: red.

Storyline follows so if you don't want to know what happens, continue to the last paragraph!

The adventure follows a young man in New York in the late 40’s
who has a sort of random run-in with a beautiful young lady, a stranger. The
man is carrying a stack of papers when the wind sends a sheet flying smack into
the woman’s face. When she hands it back, they both chuckle as
they see a bright red set of lips have been imprinted on the paper from the
woman’s lipstick. The two part on separate trains and the man quickly realizes
the mistake he has made of letting the woman go without further conversation.
He returns to his office in a tall building where he files paperwork. With his
window open he looks out to see the lady entering an office across the street
in a separate building. In a panic he conjures the idea of throwing a paper
airplane toward her. A decent amount of time is spent on the man’s attempt at
grabbing her attention. His planes continuously fail, by either missing the
window, landing in the trash behind her, falling to the street below, and even
hitting a man in another room in the building. Soon the last sheet left is the
one with the lipstick on it, but before he has a chance to throw it, the wind
sweeps it away. The man’s boss appears and with a glare sets down another stack
of papers, insisting he do his work or else.

The man sees the woman leaving and decides that it’s much
more important to find her and rushes out of the office leaving his coworkers
confused. However, once the man runs outside he has lost the woman. He then,
with low spirits, walks through the streets but finds the lipstick covered
paper on a mailbox and sends it flying out of frustration. Suddenly, all the
airplanes the man threw in failure begin to move on their own and attach
themselves to the man, becoming a guide in the busy streets of New York,
pushing him against his will all the way back to the train. Even though he
tries to fight the papers, they are too strong. Meanwhile the lipstick covered
paper lands in the sight of the woman, but when she tries to grab it, it flies
away. She chases after the paper, back onto the train she took. Eventually the
trains that both the man and woman were on return to the station where they
first met and they are reunited. The picture ends with stills of them sitting
in a coffee shop together with the lipstick stained paper, laughing.

Continue here for non-spoilers:

This short was incredibly beautiful, the black and white
colors went phenomenally with the CG animation, it really blew me away.
Something that got me even after watching it twice, was always the music which
was created by Christophe Beck. Extremely fitting and perfect for the picture,
it was very hopeful, light, and fun. I really hope that Disney will, at some
point, decide to do a completely black and white CG movie. I think that
audiences would be very receptive, if done right. The characters, drawn very tall
and slim, created a fantastical style for the film, but the details in the
faces and movements brought back enough reality that you were immersed in the
story without a second thought; I loved it!